17.12.21

 

Year 5,

It’s the Christmas holidays!! You have all earned yourselves a break after a long term where you have worked extremely hard.

This week alone, you have created images using coordinates, completed your myths and developed your grammar. You have developed your own questions in science and then developed experiments to investigate (you will have a chance to complete these after the holidays). You have created biscuits following a brief and you have also had a positive impact on the wider world with your choice to donate toward the homeless charity.

It has been lovely seeing you enjoy your Christmas party and activities and both myself and the year 5 team thank you for our generous gifts.

Update: Mrs Lawrence has kindly emailed me the details of the Polish Carol that you learnt and performed. This link takes you to the backing track you have used and the 'sound' words you've used are below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFe8iZlNpA

Zasnij Dziecino

Verse: Zash-nee jeh-chee-no

Shvee-en-teh jeh-cheh

Tish nam po-cheh-ho

Na tim shvee’eh che

Chorus: Z’roosh o-chen-ta sfoy-eh

Tish sertz-uh moy-eh

Mod-leet-r’a moy-a

Neech oosh-pee chee’eh

The team wish you a lovely break, merry Christmas and happy (and healthy) new year.

Best wishes,

Miss Huntley 😊

Next term, there will be lots more learning to be had, with us returning to electricity in science, continuing with fractions, starting a new focus in English and beginning a new history topic.

From all of the Year 5 team, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and thank you for our lovely well wishes, cards and gifts. The class would also like to thank Miss Bradford for her Christmas card this week (it was very well received).

Reminders:

- The Christmas video of Key Stage 2 is on the school website

-     - Have a lovely break

-     - Stay safe and well

-     - Please continue to read 5 times a week and Mathletics and Timetables Rockstars are there if you wish

On a personal note, I would like to say a massive thank you to you, Year 5, for making my first term at Little Heath such a lovely one. I can’t wait to see you all in 2021!

Best wishes,

Miss H Huntley J

 

Spellings wc13.12.21

 

Below are this week's spellings. Please ensure that you practise the ones you found tricky in today's pre-test so that you can improve your score on Friday. Please put these into sentences as well as trying a spelling challenge as this will help you remember them.

adorable

forgivable

disposable

reversible

invincible

legible

incredible

sensible

reliable

respectable

Ext:

identifiable

agreeable

enviable

hindrance

opportunity

If you are in Mrs Onley’s group, you should have your spellings in your Home Spelling book either today or tomorrow and these will be tested on Friday.

 

 

10.12.21

 Good afternoon Year 5,

We have come to the end of our penultimate full week before the Christmas holidays. It has been a week crammed full of learning, generosity and kindness. In English, you have written the first parts of your myths, which are fantastic to read. In Maths, you have been looking at identifying and creating equivalent fractions. You have researched about the daily lives of ancient Greeks in preparation for next week’s learning and you have completed work in computing, then sending it to me via email. You have begun your design and technology topic for this term by reading about biscuits from different countries, have undertaken some very important (and hopefully tasty) product testing, and you have designed your own biscuits to suit the brief. Let’s not forget the lovely Christmas lunch!

Next week, we will be continuing with the Christmas theme but also with our usual routine. In English, you will be finishing and editing your myths. Maths will be based around coordinates and we will aim to fit in a couple of science experiments, which is based on the questions you created this week. In History, you will use all the facts gathered in your teams to create double page spreads on the lives of the ancient Greeks and in design and technology you will be creating biscuits based on the brief of a biscuit suitable for children at a celebration.

As I have said already, I am really impressed by your generosity with your choice of donating money to a homeless charity instead of having a class present. I will look to place the order for the roll mats, socks, hot chocolate, wipes and cooking sauce this weekend, which hopefully means that they will be in use by Christmas.

Remember that next Thursday afternoon is the class party (you can bring your own change of clothes for that afternoon if you wish).

Sumdog has a new competition!! It is between schools in Hertfordshire so please try to play some of the 'tournament' games to get us up on the Leaderboard. 

 Reminders:

-        Wednesday is swimming

-        Reading –  Please ensure that you read and record it at least 5 times a week. You can do the recording; it does not have to be your adult. You must complete a Reading Journal Activity before changing your book and if you are not enjoying your book you must read at least 40 pages and write why you have not been enjoying it in your journal.

-        Spellings – You will have your next pre-test on Monday and are asked to practise these throughout the week ready for the test on Friday (they will be on the blog). Remember I am looking for improvement.

-        Sumdog/Times Tables Rockstars- Please remember to use these to practise your maths. Your passwords are stuck in the back of your Reading Journal. 

    We are baking biscuits on Monday. If your adults have any questions, please ask them to email me. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss H Huntley J

 

Spellings wc6.12.21

  Please ensure that you practice your spellings through the week. We have our pre-test on Monday and test on Friday (using the same words in a different order). I will be looking for an improvement in your score between the pre-test and test.

As discussed in class, please put your spellings into sentences on paper as this will help you to learn the meaning as well as the spelling. 

Sought

Vicious

Thought

Knowledgeable

Terrible

Past

Bruise

Rough

Available

Incredibly

Passed

Muscle 

Ext:
Category
Disastrous
Cemetery
Embarrass
identity

If you are in Mrs Onley’s group, you should have your spellings in your Home Spelling book either today or tomorrow and these will be tested on Friday.

 

 

3.12.21

  Good afternoon Year 5,

We have begun December with a nod to Christmas today in music alongside you working very hard throughout the week. In Maths you have become more confident in short division with remainders and in computing you developed your Word and Excel skills when creating Andy Warhol inspired art and when inputting data to create graphs for Science. In English, you have begun to write your myth inspired by ‘The 12 labours of Herakles’ and I have been really impressed with what I have read so far. Your knowledge of Jewish festivals has expanded with studying the beginnings of Hanukkah and in history you have begun to understand some of the ancient Greek gods. You also collectively voted to give money, that would have gone on a small gift for yourselves, to charity - something I am very impressed by and so next week we will look through the wishlist of the charity with our budget and choose the items to buy for them. 

Next week, in English, you will be continuing your myths; looking at direct speech and writing about each of your labours. Maths focus on some fraction work – identifying, comparing and working with them. In history, we will be learning about the daily lives of Ancient Greeks and in science you will plan an investigation based on the questions you had regarding soluble and insoluble materials. We will also begin our design and technology focus for this half term which is based on food. Next week will also be ‘Christmas Dinner Day’ and ‘Christmas Jumper Day’ and your projects are due on the Friday.

 Reminders:

-        Wednesday is swimming

-        Reading – You have now been given your Reading Journals and shown how to write in them. Please ensure that you read and record it at least 5 times a week. You can do the recording; it does not have to be your adult. You must complete a Reading Journal Activity before changing your book and if you are not enjoying your book you must read at least 40 pages and write why you have not been enjoying it in your journal.

-        Spellings – You will have your next pre-test on Monday and are asked to practise these throughout the week ready for the test on Friday (they will be on the blog). Remember I am looking for improvement.

-        Sumdog/Times Tables Rockstars- Please remember to use these to practise your maths. Your passwords are stuck in the back of your Reading Journal. 

      Your Ancient Greece project is due next Friday.

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Miss H Huntley J